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This will lead to an arms race with deploying cellular, GPS and wifi jammers. You can order them online right now for low prices, at low power they are very unl
by throwaway2048 7y ago
This will lead to an arms race with deploying cellular, GPS and wifi jammers. You can order them online right now for low prices, at low power they are very unlikely to ever be investigated.
https://www.jammer-store.com/gps-blockers-jammers/ https://www.jammer-store.com/gps-blockers-jammers/
Do note things like this are HIGHLY illegal, and carry pretty insane fines if you are caught.
- flyGuyOnTheSly 7y agoNo bar is going to install a cell, gps or wifi jammer to avoid a small fine... as doing so would put them out of business. No customer is going to hang out in a bar where their cell phone doesn't work.
- maccard 7y ago> No customer is going to hang out in a bar where their cell phone doesn't work. I don't think that's true - there's plenty of coffee shops/bars where my phone is totally dead as most of the walls in the city I live in are solid stone and at least a foot thick.
- dewey 7y agoSports bars are a bit different in that regard as people want to look at their bets or look at stats / follow events on Twitter etc
- bluedino 7y agoWhat bar is going to be quiet enough for sound fingerprinting to work?
- dagw 7y agoSince you know exactly what you are listening for I imagine you can handle quite a lot of noise in your signal. If you want to take it one step further I imagine you could create a special audio fingerprint that is easy to detect over the normal sort of background noise in a bar (which tends to be quite uniform) and broadcast that at regular intervals.
- golem14 7y agoIf you have enough time for recording, I guess it doesn't matter. Also I suppose noise in bars is in a rather narrow band compared to the sound from the TVs. Haven't tried though, just my guess. Of course bars could just stream without noise and just use closed caption ... Interesting what would happen if patron a brings their phone and watches a match, and patron B next to her is picking up the noise and reporting the bar :)
- flyGuyOnTheSly 7y agoObviously plenty were, hence the article's premise.
- anthk 7y agoThat's how you get an empty bar in Spain. We love to drink moderately and socialize, but FFS, the young people loves to use either WhatsAPP or talk with their relatives just in case. Also on the insane fines, these can be huge in Spain. Do not ever fuck communications there.
- Scoundreller 7y ago> Do not ever fuck communications there. Any particular cases we should look into? I figure not a lot of what goes on in Spain makes it into the English-language press.
- anthk 7y agoAEPD law is pretty clear on handling private data on companies/state institutions. Also jamming teleco signals is a no-no in any European country. I can't know how much is fined but consider it similar to an offence in the US related to the FCC.